After the morning drizzle and fog, expect some RAIN to hit around 6 p.m. in the Indianapolis area, says Paul Poteet. Temps will climb close to a balmy 40 today and even higher this weekend. Sounds wonderful after the historic sub-zero deep freeze earlier this week -- except that's also expected to lead to massive flooding as our huge piles of snow FINALLY melt!

Here are more of today's top stories:

1. Target now says data breach involved up to 70 million people.

More than 30 million more customers than first believed may have been victims of a massive Target financial data breach.(Photo: Amy Newman AP)

That's a much larger number than was first believed in the sustained theft, which affected credit- and debit-card accounts for customers during the key Black Friday holiday shopping period last November into December. The big box retailer said that a probe into the theft of its customers' personal data found that the stolen information included names, mailing addresses, phone numbers or email addresses. Although Target previously stated the breach wouldn't compromise accounts, the dramatic rise in the number of people affected called that assumption into question, CNBC said.

2. Poorly plowed streets lead many schools to cancel classes for a fifth day.

Many districts in Hamilton County this morning joined public schools in Indianapolis and surrounding Marion County, Hancock County and other districts in calling off classes due to the difficulties of navigating streets still piled with slush. A 0.7 inch dusting on Thursday night and freezing drizzle north of I-70 also was complicating commutes for many, with multiple crashes and broken traffic signals reported.

Melissa Masariu DalCorobbo posted this photo of the poor condition Thursday night of a parking lot in Indianapolis on the Star's Facebook wall. More snow Thursday evening has complicated commutes.(Photo: Provided by Melissa Masariu DalCorobbo)

-- MANY of you have been carping on social media, and in person, about the horrible Indianapolis/Marion County street snow removal. But it's not been all bad either. Let's get more organized: post your rants -- or raves -- on Twitter and Instagram using #IndySnowRant or #IndySnowRave!

-- This trapped trucker survived hours in subzero temps at the Pilot Travel Center in Whiteland!

Truck driver Tim Rutledge was trapped under his truck for about six hours during the height of the cold snap that struck Indiana earlier this week.(Photo: AJ Mast/AP)

Driver Tim Rutledge, 53, of Orlando, Fla. got pinned under an axle during the winter storm Monday after it dropped on him under his rig, where he had crawled to fix his frozen brakes. WORSE, his cellphone fell out of his pocket -- thank goodness that after eight hours, he was able to use its voice-activation feature to call for help! Rutledge said Thursday he still has some numbness but shouldn't have long-term injuries. His doctor says another hour outside likely would have been fatal.

3. Indianapolis police approve a new three-year contract.

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IMPD badge on patrol car(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/The Star)

IMPD officers will receive a 3 percent pay raise in July, ­according to a contract agreement announced Thursday evening by the Fraternal Order of Police said. The agreement, approved by 82 percent of the FOP members who voted, also will allow officers to receive increases in 2015 and 2016 for an "overall average increase of over 6 percent." The Department of Public Safety and FOP have agreed to implement a minimum staffing model for IMPD, the union's news release said, as well as consider alternative shift schedules to ensure that enough officers are working at peak times.

4. Customers lament the closure of eight Marsh supermarkets.

The stores to be closed by Jan. 31 include these local groceries: 2802 Lafayette Road and 5249 Thompson Road in Indianapolis; 6121 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway; 1772 N. Main St. in Franklin; and 2250 N. Lebanon St., Lebanon. The Fishers-based company cited a declining customer base and, in certain cases, the opportunity to take advantage of expiring leases as the main factors in the decision.

McAfee also has been fined by the team (by "more than a dollar, less than $3 million") after his postgame tweet last Saturday inadvertently exposed more of the quarterback than his bearded chin. "It was a very stupid mistake I made," McAfee said. "The good thing is Andrew doesn't hate me."

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The layoffs in the British manfacturer's defense business will affect salaried and hourly workers, including 266 in Indy represented by UAW Local 933. The reductions "are a result of the need to increase efficiency and drive further improvements in the affordability of its products and services," as well as adjust to lowered defense spending, the company said. Its largest engine-manufacturing operation is located here, including a brand-new $42 million, 81,500-square-foot plant on the Southwestside that makes parts for its T56 jet engines.

7. Most of Charleston, W. Va. shuts down in wake of chemical disaster.

A Freedom Industries worker places a boom in the Elk River at the site of a chemical leak in Charleston that has fouled the drinking water in five West Virginia counties.(Photo: Chris Dorst AP)

Tens of thousands of people in nine counties surrounding the capital city have been advised not to use their tap water after a foaming agent used in coal processing leaked into the Elk River. A federal disaster was declared shortly after Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin issued a state of emergency following the breach at Freedom Industries, when the chemical overran a containment area and hit a river and a nearby water treatment plant. So far, no illnesses have been reported.

The Indian diplomat, who has now been formally charged with lying about her housekeeper's wages and committing visa fraud, was ordered out of the U.S. after India refused to waive her immunity. Reports say India has asked the U.S. to withdraw an official from its embassy in Delhi as a reprisal -- which may put to bed the controversial case, inflamed further by the consular official's arrest and strip search in December.

-- In other news: Iran's supreme leader harshly denounced the United States on Thursday as negotiations to conclude an interim agreement in the Iranian nuclear dispute resumed, saying those talks illustrated what he called the hostility of Americans toward Iran and the Muslim world. Iranian analysts said it was possible that Ayatollah Khamenei was positioning himself for a possible collapse of the negotiations, which he has backed even as the hard-line conservative segment of his own constituency has expressed reservations.

9. Cosmic "hand of God" spotted by NASA space telescope.

NASA's "Hand of God" image of an exploded star.(Photo: Uncredited AP)

Social media users are buzzing over this newly released X-ray image that shows a cloud of material resembling a hand that was ejected from a start that exploded. High-energy X-rays are shown in blue, lower-energy X-ray light, previously detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, is shown in green and red. Scientists aren't sure whether the ejected material actually assumes the shape of a hand, or whether its interaction with the pulsar's particles is just making it appear that way. Like those images of the Virgin Mary burned into grilled cheese, the "hand of God" image is an example of pareidolia -- the psychological phenomenon of perceiving familiar shapes in random or vague images.

I love the more-casual vibe of the annual run-up to the Oscars from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA or, as many TV critics say, "HuffPa") -- but the return of popular duo Tina Fey Amy Poehler promises this year's telecast will be even more fun! Don't know which movies and TV shows and stars are nominated? Check out USA TODAY movie critic Claudia Puig's predictions of who should win -- and who WILL win, because we all know the actual choices of this media group are often weird, weird, weird. Tune in Sunday at 8 p.m. on WTHR-TV (Channel 13)!